Granary



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

EBENEZER FORD, OF SPRING COTTAGE, MISSISSIPPI.

GRANARY.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 11,830, dated October 24, 1854.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, EBENEzEn FORD, of Spring Cottage, in the county ofMarion and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Granaries for Storing Grain of all Descriptions; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full and exact descriptionthereof.

The nature of my improvement consists in erecting a building havingdouble walls and double lioors, furnishing the same with doublepartitions; the walls, floors, and partitions being filled in with salt,in order to prevent the attacks of insects.

To en'able others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I willproceed to describe its construction and operation, reference being hadto the annexed drawings forming part of this specification, in which-Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved granary. Fig. 2 ahorizontal section of the same.

Similar letters refer to like parts.

a, flooring; 5, c, compartments; CZ, doors; e, gauze; j, window;,g,door; L, gauze; partitions; 7c, smoke-hole; Z, walls.

The building intended for a granary con structed on my plan is built inthe usual manner except that the walls, Z, are made double, one insideof the other, the space between being filled in with salt. Thepartitions z', are also constructed in the same manner, so that betweenthe dilferent compartments a, 5, c, there are double partitionscontaining a filling of salt.

When the granary is finished and ready for use, the fioor should besaturated with salt-brine. The house is now to be smoked by theintroduction of a stove-pipe through the hole, 7c, the pipe beingconnected out side with an ordinary stove, the smoke being carriedthrough the hole, 7c, directly into the interior of the building.Sawdust or any kind of wood used in smoking meat will answer. When thehouse is being smoked the doors and 4windows should all be closed, butin clear weather the windows may be4 opened for ventilation. The grainmay now be put in; and if in bulk, it should be thrown up against thewalls, slanting down toward the corners of the garners.

I should have mentioned that the partitions between the compartments arehigh, where they join the walls of the building, and slant down quitelow toward the center of the same, which permits the introduction oflight in the various parts. The house should be smoked at least once amonth with sulfur, and likewise with wood or saw-dust during cloudy orsultry weather, which are the periods when the weevil and other insectsgenerate.

If no insects be carried into the granary with the grain none willappear during the season. Should any have been carried in they willperish, and not generate any more.

The object of the gauze at the top of the doors and the windows is toadmit currents of cold air when a proper opportunity occurs.

Salt is a substance very destructive to insects. It is sometimes appliedwith great success as a dressing for land. Barns constructed withpartitions filled with salt in the manner I have described will beperfectly free Vfrom their attacks. By the employment of smoke in themanner I have described, any superabundant moisture occasioned by theuse of salt will be carried off', and the condition of the granary be atall times properly preserved.

I am aware that salt has long been used as a filling between the timbersof ships, and also between the walls of ice houses; and therefore, tosuch devices I make no claim. But

What I do claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

The mode herein described for making granaries, having the walls, ioors,and partit-ions filled in with common salt in the manner, substantiallyas set fort-h.

EBENEZER FORD.

Witnesses JOSEPH M. FORD, GEORGE W. STEWART.

